Utility Works

🎨✨ Artists: Ready to grow your practice?

Making great work is only part of the equation. Building a sustainable creative career takes strategy, community, and knowing where to find opportunities.

Join artist, educator, and researcher Patricia Renee' Thomas for a workshop on Business Development for the Arts, where you'll learn practical tools for maintaining a healthy artist practice and creating a thriving, consistent career.

We'll cover:

🖼️ How to show your work and maintain an exhibition schedule

💰 Grants, residencies, sales, and funding opportunities

🤝 Building and sustaining your art community

Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your practice to the next level, this workshop is designed to help demystify the professional side of being an artist.

Led by Patricia Renee' Thomas, whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and who currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University.

📍 Join us and invest in your creative future!

We loved this weekend’s Professional Development workshop 💭🎨

We got to spend time talking about something a lot of artists don’t get taught: how to position your work so people actually understand it, connect with it, and hire you for it. Because making the work is only part of it.

At LEDC, we’re not just creating space for artists, we’re trying to build real pathways: ➡️ to audiences ➡️ to opportunities ➡️ to sustainable creative work

More to come soon — including a workshop on working with galleries 👀

Something new to try this month at Utility Works 🎨

Whether you’re getting your hands in clay for the first time or building on your creative practice, we’ve got a full lineup of workshops designed to get you making:

🌀 Wheel Throwing
🎉 An Art Supply Free Fair
🪴 Plant Pot Making
🧵 Tapestry Workshop
🧚 Fairy House Workshop

🔗 Learn more + register: bit.ly/LEDC_UW_events